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# Tuskegee Airmen
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America’s Black Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen
In early 1941, the US War Department reluctantly began to accept African Americans candidates for pilot training in the US Army Air Corps (later the US Army Air Forces). However, military authorities…
American History
Lesser Known Civil Rights Moments That Changed Everything
The black struggle in the United States for freedom, equality, and basic human dignity, stretches back centuries and has taken…
American History
The Most Heroic Airmen of World War II
As a general proposition, you would expect a fighter ace – a pilot who downed at least five airplanes –…
American History
History Battle of Black Race for Liberty and Justice
African American history is steeped in the fight for freedom and against oppression. Some of the best-known events in that…